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Hi Ginniebean – I like your avatar – it’s funny. It reminds me of a poster I saw many years ago when Maggie Thatcher was our PM and Ronald Regan was the US president. In the poster there was a picture of a mushroom cloud in the background and in the foreground Regan was carrying Thatcher away from the scene – like a scene from ‘Gone with the Wind’ – the caption was something like ‘She promised to follow him to the end of the earth and he promised to organise it’. I suspect perhaps only those who lived in the UK as adults during the Thatcher years and who have a warped sense of humour will find it amusing. Ah – the good old 70s and 80s when we used to worry about nuclear war. Funny how over the decades we still worry about being attacked by someone. I digress….
I am not a medic and can only offer an opinion based on my perception of what you described; but it seems from your post that dexedrine did not suit you. I have heard that this drug can cause more physical complications than ritalin (methylphenidate) but everyone is different.
Perhaps you could try ritalin again but at a low dose and see if the formication returns? If you try the fast release stuff you can stop it immediately if it doesn’t suit. Did you slowly increase the dose until you got the symptoms – it might be a case of finding the right balance?
I gather from Dr J’s post there must be a treatment for formication, so you could mention it to your doctor and see what s/he suggests.
Alternatively maybe you could try Straterra instead of the stimulants – the chemistry is different so the side effects might not be the same.
Sounds horrible – I get a kind of ‘skin tightening’ feel around my eyes with ritalin but formication would drive me nuts.
Good luck getting it sorted out.
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